The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-03-10
LILLIAN'S MARRIAGE.
A STARTLING REVELATION IN
RICHMOND.

Cluverius Did Not XIII Her--Another
Side of the Cluverius Madison
Affair.
From the Wddes6oro Inteuigencer.
We have read within the last few
days, pamphlet written by Mr.. Phil
lip Leigh, of Richmond, Va, which
purports to tell truthful tale of the
mystery of Fannie Lillian Madison's
murder. We are not acquainted with
the writer of the pamphlet, but we
know Leigh to be a good name-one
of the best in Virginia.
Whether the tale which Mr.. Leie
tells be true or not, we are unable to
say. The first part of it does not read
like the truth, but rather like pig
ment of the imagination. We will tell
briefly in a few lines, what he tells in
twenty-five or thirty Seges:
+ He commences wi the statement
that Fanny Lillian Madison met at
camp meeting, few miles from Rich
mond, about September, 1884, Monroe
Parker, = strange character, who rep
resented himself as the son OF a mil
lionaire, that the silly girl became in
fatuated with him and consented to a
secret marriage under fictitious names,
(Will Campbell and Mollie Malone),
that the marriage ceremony was per-
formed at Washington; that after three
weeks spent at the home of some poor
people in the county, Parker, or Camp
bell, deserted the unhappy woman
and left her to her own resources; that
she found home with Mrs. Dlcker-
son, in Bath county, Va, (the same
lady, it will be remembered, in whose
family Miss Madison was teaching
school before she started on her fatal
trip to Richmond, )that she confded
her secret to Cluverius and met him
by appointment in Richmond, as her
time of trial approached, he having
promised to provide for her main
tenance during her trying ordeal.
The writer states that Fanny Lillian
Madison met for the first time since
she was deserted, her husband, dis
guised as an old man, in Richmond
on March 18th, 1885, and that he i
was, his disguise DOTTED, that she wa!
seen with on Belle Isle and elsewhere
the day preceding the night of hel
murder.
Again donning his disguise when i
| suited, the girl was taken to the Amer
: lean hotel by Parker, where she wa
: left. At night she again emerged IL
! company with Cluverius, by whom sh,
II was accompanied to within one blocl
= of the Dunstan House, ON the from
I gate of which the murdered girl
shawl was found hanging. 1t was he
intention to apply at this house fo
: shelter, "But she nesitated; she had n
IT claims upon these people, she was bare
e ly acquainted with them, and he
e heart shrunk from the thought Of con
d fessing her shame to them. She walk
: ed up the street in her distraction, en-
e tirely forgetting the shawl which sh
5, had laid absentmindedly on the gate
d She walked far up the street when tn
II rough hand of a man seized her. Sh
screamed and held tight to her han
n bag which contained the money whic
l. contained the money given her b
i Cluverius, but the man dealt her
h blow which felled her the ground"
,s So says the pamphlet. The obje'
N of this assault was robbery. The ru
le fans name wss Jim Lewis. He it ws
rs whose tracts were found on the grount
ID He it was who threw the unconscio,
d form of the girl into the reservoir
IA cover up his crime.
Lewis, fearful Of detection, fed frol
a Richmond and went to New Yerl
ly He it was who wrote the letter to 81
n perintendent Murry, of the pole
D. force, signing himself LILLIAN Mad
a sons Murderer" A guilty consciee'
to drove Lewis to madness, and wee
It. after the letter was written, he thre
a himself under the wheels Of a passir
as car and was instantly killed. M
ne Leigh says he was in New York
al the time and saw the dead man {
the street and from the wife of the
~ ceased learned of Lewis crime.
~ The woman promised tc go with hi
co to Richmond and clear up the my
G. terry. He called at her house ne:
ne day, but found the woman dead
,s, bed, having been sufocated with chi
tx roform.
to We quote from the pamphlet:
ly "Did Mary Lewis kill herself or W
I'd her death accidental? / remembert
g. her bright cleaning eye, when 81
ad told me she would 60 to Richmor
ct. and 1 think with the cunning Of
IT. sanity, she determined to kill hersel
OF The painful position which 1 W
n thrown in, with the condemned ms
sst in his cell ever before me made me
At and l was delerious in New York f
ID. weeks. I raved they said of a m:
I hanging and was constantly trying
tie reach him. what time is it?' / aske
nd waking un. I thought from slee